The Aesthetics of Environment

Index

Aalto, Alvar, 147 activity, 6, 14, 18, 24, 37,40,44,47, 53, 59-61 ,64,80,81,85,88,89, 92,95,97, 119, 120, 124, 128, 130, 132,136,137,141,143,15 1,155, 163, 164 Adams, Ansel, 142 acsthetic and the moral, 80, 104 aesthetic distance, 114, 120 aesthetic environment, 2, 16, 20, 23, 27, 85, 91, 142 aesthetic experiencc, xii, 15, 22, 26, 37, 60, 103, 105, 120, 123, 125,128, 131, 139, 156-58, 167-69 aesthetic field, 139, 166 aesthetic landscape, 6 aesthetic pleasure, 17, 169 acsthetics, xi-xiii, 1-2, 10-13, 15-16, 19,21,22,23,25-27,29,35-4°, 58-60,74,81,91,98, 118, 119, 142, 145-48, 150, 157, 158, 160-67, 17174 , 177, 178; applied, xii; cultural, 21-23; descriptive, 25-39; of nature, II, 38, 58, 164, 167, 171; sLlbstanti\'l~, Index 25-26; traditional, 125, 161-66, 171, 206n3, 207n12; universal, 161, 175 affordance, 150 Africa, 21 Agam, Yaaeov, 117 aisth,?sis, 16, 193n5, 200n4 Alaska, 133 Alberti, Leon Battista, 71 Alexander, Christopher, 151 America, 8, 21, 3°,49,72,75, 138, 139, 142, 148, 154 American landscape, 176-90 Andrcws, John, Scarborough College, 154 an expenence, 202n I I Ant Farm, Cadillac Ranch, III anthropocentrism, 194n I 2 anthropologists, 21, 87, 179 Antwerp, 89 Apollonian, 146 Appel, Karel, 116 appreciation, xiv, 1-2, 12, 14, 15, 26, 27,38, 59,60,95, 114, 116-18, 120, 12:;, 130 , 13 1, 136, 137, 143-44, 145, 209 210 Index appreciation (cont.) 158-67, 169, 171, 172, 174, 176, 177, 183, 192nl, 200nnl,2, 201 nn2, 3; of art, 164, 172; of environment, 1, 130-31 appreciative engagement, 118, 131, 144, 158 architectural criticism, 127-29, 131 architectural oppression, 88 architecture, xi, ll, 14, 60, 62, 74, 77, 84, 87, 90, 94, 127, 129, 130, 14654 , 157-59, 162, 163, 174, 184, 204nn11,12; vernacular, 84, 90, 147, 154; Victorian, 47 Arcosanti, 154 Aristotle, 28, 72, 77, 140 Arlington National Cemetery, 131 Arp, Jean, 117 art, 1, 5-6, 11, 12, 15,21,23,25,26, 37-39, 47, 53, 58, 59-62,64, 68, 70, 73, 80, 81, 88, 97, 98, 100, 101, 103-14, 116-20, 123-28, 130, 13537 , 149, 151, 156- 69, 171, 172-74, 176; exhibition of, 114-25; and nature, 160-75; as object, 20In5; in outer space, 110, 111; work of, 201n5 artworld, 126 assemblages, 58 audience, 66, 113, 143, 163 Audubon, John James, 32 Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility, quoted, 208n3 automobile, xii, 2, 9, 3°,41,43,44, 46,48,49, 51,95, 133 Avery, Milton, 116 axis mundi, 197n20 Bacon, Francis, 121, 122, 168 Bali, 21 Baltimore, 189 Bantam River, 29, 34 Baumgarten, Alexander, 156 beauty, 1, 2, ll, 16,43, 57, 61, 63, 83, 112, 138, 146-48, 160, 162, 163, 168,171-73,181,183,2°71123; natural, 2-3, ll, 160, 168, 171, 172; sensual, 173 Beaux Arts tradition, 147 behaviorism, 18 Bell, Clive, 126 Berkeley, George, 140 Berry, Wendell, 36 biology, 197-98nI125,26 birds, 32, 35, 90, 95 Blue Hill, Me., 140 Boccioni, Umberto, 121 body, 17-19,23,28,60,91,107,108, 119, 130, 149-52, 155, 163, 166 bodyspace, 194n7 Bonnard, Pierre, 121 Bosch, Hieronymus, 120 Boston, 189 Bourdelle, Emile Antoine, 165 Braque, Georges, 117 Breughel, Pieter, 122 Brown, Lancelot ("Capability"), 141 Burke, Edmund, 168 Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 66 Calder, Alexander, 117, 165 camping, 21, 170 Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), 117, 120 canoeing, 29, 30-33, 43, 54, 55, 142, 17° Cartesian philosophy, 5, 44, 99, 149, 168 Cassatt, Mary, 121 cathedral, 61, 62, 67-70, 74, 75, 152, 17°,172, 196n14 Central Park, 129 Chagall, Marc, 122 Chaplin, Charlie, 65 Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon, 116, 120 China, 8, 21, 83, 84,120, 155, 183 Chinese landscape painting, 8 Chinese scroll painting, 155 Chirico, Giorgio de, 121 Christianity, 7 Christo, 109, 121 Church, Frederick Edwin, 44, 47, 176 cinema, 21, 104 circus, 61, 62, 64-67, 70, 73 city, 11, 12, 15, 57-98, 134, 140, 142, 143, 178, 183, 185, 186, 189, 1981128; in nineteenth century, 93; planned, 83-84 city and regional planning, 12, 77, 83, 178, 186 clowns, 65-66 color, 16, 19, 22, 27, 29, 32, 55, 58, 59, 64, 88, 97, 106, 109, 119, 120, 130, 152, 155, 171 conceptual art, 139 Connecticut, 29, 40, 45, 133...